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When hddtemp runs it will pop up a window about running the deamon at startup it recommends not to do so, you can choose either way.
If you want to reconfigure this just run dpkg-reconfigure hddtemp to do so.

Code:

root@dorkbox:~#apt-get install sensors-applet

You can add a panel applet with this.

There is a front end of for smartmontools, to install GSmartControl using the package available here:

Then use

Code:

root@dorkbox:~#dpkg -i gsmartcontrol_0.8.4+nmu1_i386.deb

to install it.
There is also an AMD64 package if needed.
once it finishes running dpkg will complain about needing some missing libraries, just

Code:

root@dorkbox:~#run apt-get -f install

and the gsmartcontrol will install them as well.

To run the app
go to: K menu> System> GSMartControl

There may an easier way to do this, it was just the easiest that I found at the moment. Hit back if you need some help or have problems.
Thank you

I know that a lot of newer mother boards take advantage of the tech too. But most people will not look at their bios everyday.

On a similar note, I just configured Conky to read the LM Sensor information. So now I can display Fan Speeds, CPU and Motherboard temps. I was gonna work on using the SMART to display similar in conky as well.

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On a similar note, I just configured Conky to read the LM Sensor information. So now I can display Fan Speeds, CPU and Motherboard temps. I was gonna work on using the SMART to display similar in conky as well.

After looking at this for a bit, I really found no relevant info on the net.
But I suppose a cron job could be used to run the smartctl
the output of course could then be read by conky.
I did however try running something like this: